Boz Scaggs a Great Rock and Roll Singer and Cajun Music
Author: artmaraut13 // Category: EntertainmentBoz Scaggs is A Rock and Roll Legend
I have known about Boz Scaggs and admired his music since the days of the Fillmore East back in the 1960′s. His style is very eclectic, ranging from hard rock to blues, pop and country. But his most interesting performance to my ear is the song
With it’s easy going zydeco style beat and instrumentation, the touching lyrics and Boz’s emotional yet laid back vocals, I can listen to “Fly Like a Bird” over and over again.
If you enjoy a great voice, with wonderful songs from a wide range of popular music, then Boz Scaggs is the performer for you. I know of him since back in the sixties, when he opened for many acts such as the Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, as well as his own headliner appearances.
Here’s a collection of some of his finest albums:
Did you know that Boz Scaggs knew Steve Miller since the late 1950′s? They were classmates at a private school in Dallas, and Skaggs learned how to play guitar when he was twelve years old. After a while in 1959, he joined Steve Miller’s first band. They parted ways but remained friends, and hooked up again in the psychedlic era, wher Boz sang on Steve’s first two albums.
Boz has had his ups and downs over the years, but not due to the quality of his music or his musicianship. He has a very loyal group of fans (including me!), and he is still touring at least once a year. All in all he is one of the greatest vocalists of popular music.
Zydeco It”s Origins and Influences
Zydeco is a style of music which originated with the African American people of Louisiana, who spoke Creole. It is accordion based, and really came to the fore in the late 1940′s. It is not Cajun music, but it was influenced by Cajun elements, and more recently, by rock n roll, rythym and blues and the blues. One of the earliest Zydeco hits was Clarence Garlow’s hit “Bon Ton Roula, which hit the air waves in 1949.
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